American Revolution

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Across
  1. 2. Representatives from all other colonies met to write the declaration of rights and grievances.
  2. 3. The committee that appointed to draft the Declaration of Independence.
  3. 4. A war started from British expansion.
  4. 6. An enlightenment thinker who supported freedom of speech.
  5. 8. A tax on most of the printed materials
  6. 11. Where Britain recognized the independence of the United States.
  7. 12. The response to the Boston tea party
  8. 13. This was a law that gave the east India company an advantage in the tea business.
  9. 14. Written by Thomas Jefferson and borrowed ideas from the enlightenment thinkers.
Down
  1. 1. "shot heard around the world."
  2. 5. As the the French and Indian war started getting expensive, Great Britain started to control the colonies to pay off their debt.
  3. 7. When Boston troops fired at 5 colonists
  4. 9. The British prohibiting colonists of the Appalachian trail to avoid conflict with native Americans.
  5. 10. He believed all people were born with life, liberty, and property .